When I was a teenager, a lot of guys wore their hair long. It was a relatively new fashion, so after some controversy, our school allowed them to keep it, but to shoulder length. I always thought it was attractive.
My best guy friend, Rio, is Chumash and has had almost waist length hair since I’ve known him. Nowadays he wears it in a braid, but his older son also began wearing his hair very long as a teenager.
Rio is obviously Native American, but his wife is Irish, so people don’t always get the connection with his son (my godson) who was sometimes criticized for the long hair and even misgendered. As an adult people assume he’s a white man with long hair, and now he wears it just below his shoulders.
